by David Wayne
•5:00-5:10 PM
Mrs. Kelly speaks to her daughter, Rachel, on the phone and apparently informs her of the situation.
•5:10-5:30 PM
Rachel takes the twenty-minute drive to her parent’s home.
•5:30-6:00 PM
Rachel arrives at the home of her parents and talks to her mother. She then retraces the route of her father’s normal walk, a route that she knows.
•5:00-6:00 PM
A colleague of Dr. Kelly’s from the British Ministry of Defence attempts to reach him on his cell, but Dr. Kelly’s mobile phone is switched off.
Analysis: We know that his cell phone was turned off during this time period which, in itself, is extremely suspicious—Dr. Kelly was in the midst of very fluidly-changing events and had been in constant contact with colleagues in the Ministry of Defence. Therefore, it is virtually unthinkable that he would have shut off his cell phone voluntarily. He had specifically informed friends that his mobile was always on.
•6:30 PM
Rachel returns to the Kelly home, not having found her father.
•Throughout the evening hours
Rachel is joined by her sister, Sian, who has arrived at the Kelly home with her partner, Richard. The sisters search around town looking for their father, with no success.
Analysis: It was well known to all concerned that Dr. Kelly was in an extremely high profile position and in a very dangerous business—this was at the height of his controversy in the British press. Note that a man in that dangerous position went for his methodical half-hour walk many, many hours ago and yet, even in a small village, there is no trace of him having been anywhere. But, reportedly, the police still have not been called.
Note, also, that which is absent. At no time is it mentioned, anywhere in the official evidence, that anyone attempted to call him on his cell phone.
•11:00 PM
The sisters finally return to the home, unsuccessful in tracking their father. Harrowdown Hill was checked as a possible location, because it was known that Dr. Kelly did sometimes go there on his longer walks.
•11:40 PM - Police are finally called (Missing for over eight hours)
•11:50-11:55 PM
Police arrive at the Kelly home
•11:55 PM-1:00 AM Friday
Three police officers take down the information with a missing- persons form. Sergeant Simon Morris told the Hutton Inquiry that, at that time, he arranged “a reasonably thorough search of Dr. Kelly’s house and the surrounding grounds to be carried out.” The apparent reason for searching the area was in case Dr. Kelly had had a heart attack or was unconscious due to a medical emergency.
•1:00 AM Friday
Sgt. Morris puts out an order for an aerial search, which Mrs. Kelly states began at about 1:00 AM. However, there is an exact record of the aerial searches made, and they were apparently much later. Records indicate that a police helicopter was dispatched from Luton and was airborne in search of Dr. Kelly from 2:50 to 4:05 AM. The police helicopter then refueled at RAF Benson, and a second search sortie then took place from 4:30 to 5:10 AM, for a total aerial search of one hour and fifty- five minutes.
•Sometime during the early am hours
A large vehicle with a 110-foot communication tower with a huge antenna, arrives by truck and is set up in the yard of the Kelly home. It has been deployed by Thames Valley Police. Analysis: Norman Baker, Member of Parliament, checked with some experts about this item. They told him that, even in an area with poor reception, they would expect a communications mast no higher than fifteen feet to be used because it would be more than sufficient for all anticipated communication necessary. Therefore, the only discernible explanation for the huge tower would have been to enable hi-tech communication to someone very far away or perhaps airborne, for example. It is known that, at the time this took place, Prime Minister Tony Blair was airborne, en route from Washington to Japan.
•2:00-4:00 AM: Search on foot
“Half a dozen” officers search outside for Dr. Kelly, although the search is largely in the area very near his home.
•2:50-4:05 AM
Actual time of first aerial search
Analysis: Note that the helicopter was reportedly equipped with high-tech heat-seeking equipment which should have been able to locate Dr. Kelly’s body had the body actually been present at the time of the search. His body temperature still registered twenty-four degrees Celsius at 7:15 PM the following day, therefore, it would have been high enough to register on the heat-seeking equipment at the time of this search. It was also only four days after Full Moon which would have further facilitated said search.
•4:30-5:10 AM
Actual time of second aerial search
•5:30 AM
Meeting takes place at Abingdon Police Station, attended by Assistant Chief Constable Page, Sergeant Paul Wood (a police search advisor, the Detective Inspector for the area, and the local head of Special Branch (British equivalent to Intelligence/ Security). ACC Page testified that at this time: “My concerns were that Dr. Kelly had gone out for a walk, perhaps become ill, perhaps had an accident befall him, possibly had been abducted against his will, possibly was being detained.” Analysis: Note that, although the police have had substantial input from family members, etc., and have brainstormed together about the case, still, at this late hour, suicide was not even mentioned as a possibility.
•6:00 AM
Police forces are marshaled and sent out to what are now considered the five or six most likely locations Dr. Kelly could have disappeared (Harrowdown Hill is at number two on that list). Other constables are also called in from surrounding areas to assist and a call also goes out to the South East Berkshire Emergency Volunteers and search dogs. Detective Constable Graham Coe begins conducting door-to-door inquiries.
•6:30-7:30 AM
During this period, a force of thirty to forty officers are on outward search from the Kelly home.
•7:15 AM
The South East Berkshire Emergency Volunteers arrive at the Abingdon Police Station, are briefed on the situation and set out on their search with scent dogs.
•8:00-8:25 AM
Dog picks up scent
Two volunteer searchers, Louise Holmes and Paul Chapman, and their search dog Brock, a highly-trained Collie, are searching the area to which they had been assigned—the woods between Harrowdown Hill and the Thames River. Brock the Collie picks up a scent and then indicates that he has found something, by returning and barking to Louise Holmes. Typically, responding as trained, he always takes his handler directly to what he has found. On this occasion, however, the search dog would not do so. Oddly, he refused, and would only direct his handler to what he had found, declining to approach the area himself.
•8:30 AM—Dr. Kelly’s body is found in the woods
Louise Holmes locates a body in the woods at Harrowdown Hill. She shouts to fellow volunteer Paul Chapman to call the police. Chapman calls emergency 999 and soon gets a callback from Abingdon Police Station. The volunteers are told to wait in their car for police. On their way back to their car, they encounter three police intelligence detectives (C.I.D.) who had been walking towards the river. They were not aware that a body had been found. Two were identified as District Constable Graham Coe and District Constable Shields—the third man has never been identified. DC Coe told volunteer Chapman to show him the body and Chapman led him there. Coe then told Chapman to return to his car and wait for additional police.
•8:30-9:00 AM
DC Coe is then alone with the body for about half an hour and there have been numerous inconsistencies in the evidence ever since:
“The volunteer searchers who first came across Dr. Kelly both described him as sitting upright. Mr. Chapman, from a distance of some fifteen to twenty meters, told the inquiry that Dr. Kelly’s body was ‘sitting with his back up against a tree’. Ms Holmes concurred, saying that Dr. Kelly’s head and shoulders were just slumped back against the tree.’” DC C
oe, however, testified to what has become the official version, which is that Dr. Kelly was laying out flat on the ground. Analysis: The two searchers do not even note the small cut on Dr. Kelly’s wrist because there is actually very little blood. Quite a long period of time passes, under the circumstances, before paramedics are summoned. The apparent reason that it was untenable for the body to be in an upright position becomes quite clear when we examine the forensic evidence below regarding the directional trail of dried vomit stains.
•9:40 AM—Emergency call finally received at Abingdon Ambulance Station
An emergency call is received that a body has been found at Harrowdown Hill and an ambulance is dispatched there.
•9:55 AM—Emergency Paramedics Arrive
Two paramedics, Dave Bartlett and Vanessa Hunt, arrive at the scene. They are struck by the large number of all types of law enforcement personnel present: police from the”special armed response units” and others, some in civilian clothing, “others in black jackets and army fatigues.” They park their ambulance and are led into the woods by two armed-response officers, walking about one mile and carrying their resuscitation equipment. They locate the body and assess the status of the victim: Hunt checks for a pulse and Bartlett shines a flashlight in the eye looking for a pupil reaction. They place four electrodes on the chest and try to detect any heart activity. There is none. Analysis: There is now evidence that the body has been moved. The two paramedics both note that the body is laying flat on the ground, as opposed to sitting up against a tree as the two search team members found it. Observe that the fact that the body was moved post-mortem means that a cover-up was already operational during the search. Had the investigation been an authentic one, they would not have moved the body to conform to other evidence. There would have been no reason to move it.
•10:07 AM—David Christopher Kelly is Declared Dead
The paramedics are clinically trained emergency medical personnel who are well experienced in death scenes, having been paramedics in ambulance crews for over fifteen years each. Assessing the victim and the crime scene, the first thing that strikes them is the virtual absence of blood. They have witnessed “successful” wrist-slashing crime scenes: Vanessa Hunt described that as “like a slaughterhouse.” And they note that the differences were dramatic. They do not see anything close to adequate evidence of a suicide. Paramedic Vanessa Hunt testified :
“The amount of blood that was around the scene seemed relatively minimal ... no obvious arterial bleeding. There was no spraying of blood or huge blood loss or any obvious loss on the clothing.”
“There wasn’t a puddle of blood around. There was a little bit of blood on the nettles to the left of his left arm. But there was no real blood on the body of the shirt. The only other bit of blood I saw was on his clothing. It was the size of a 50p piece, above the right knee on his trousers . When somebody cuts an artery, whether accidentally or intentionally, the blood pumps everywhere. I just think it is incredibly unlikely that he died from the wrist wound we saw.”
Paramedic Bartlett was in complete agreement with his partner. He recalled being at one attempted suicide where the blood actually shot all the way up to the ceiling and recalled the details of it:
“Even in this incident, the victim survived. It looked like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the guy walked out alive. We have been to a vast amount of incidents where people who have slashed their wrists, intentionally or not, most of them are taken down to the hospital and given a few stitches, then sent straight back home. But there is a lot of blood. It’s all over them.”
Bartlett even commented on the weakness of the wrist wound while at the crime scene:
“I remember saying to one of the policeman, it didn’t look like he died from that ... “
The paramedics also document clearly visible dried vomit stains running from the corners of the victim’s mouth, directly downwards to his ears on both sides.
Analysis: Note that the dried stains running to both ears are consistent with the body position because it is now laying flat on the ground. Had the victim been leaning up against a tree—as he indeed quite obviously was—gravity would have made the trails come down the victim’s front, not back to his ears. The logical inference is that the body was moved postmortem to rectify the inconsistency.
•10:55 AM— Helicopter lands at Harrowdown Hill
Information finally released in 2011, only as a result of requirements related to a Freedom of Information Act request, revealed that a helicopter landed at the site where Dr. Kelly’s body was found, approximately ninety minutes after his body was discovered. However, the document is so redacted (blacked out for”national security” reasons) that it is not even possible to discern the purpose of the helicopter, who was on board, or who requested it. Thames Police refused to comment. Analysis: As with just about everything else with this case, there seems to be no sense of responsibility to explain actions reasonably, conduct affairs logically and in a trustworthy manner or, for that matter, to even lend the appearance of actually trying to ascertain the truth about these matters. As Dr. Andrew Watt, one of the doctors who has brought the official version under much-deserving pressure, puts it: “If the purpose of the helicopter flight was innocent, one has to ask why it was kept secret.” Timeline constructed from:
“The Lord Hutton Inquiry—Evidence”, August 27- September 2, 2003, Hearing transcripts; Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr David Kelly C.M.G., Lord Hutton, January 28, 2004; http://www.the-hutton-inquiry. org.uk/content/report The Hutton Inquiry—Evidence, Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom. http://www.the-hutton- inquiry. org.uk/content/ evidence-lists/evidence030903.htm The Strange Death of David Kelly, Norman Baker MP (Member of Parliament), 2007;
“Did Two Hired Assassins Snatch Weapons Inspector David Kelly?’, Norman Baker, October 22, 2007, Daily Mail. http:// www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&cod e=BAK20071022&articleId=7155
“Kelly Death Paramedics Query Verdict”, Antony Barnett, December 12, 2004, The Observer. http://www.guardian. co.uk/uk/2004/dec/12/politics.davidkelly
“Dr. Kelly’s Final Email to a Friend: Dark Actors Playing Games”, Jamie Macaskill, July 20, 2003, The Sunday Mail. http://www. rense.com/general39/kellyy.htm
“Police ‘Ignored’ Dr David Kelly’s Mobile Phone Records: Police investigating the death of the Government weapons inspec-tor Dr David Kelly ignored mobile phone records which could have shed light on his movements before he died, it has been claimed”; Andy Bloxham, January 7, 2011, The Telegraph “Mystery Helicopter Claim Over Dr. David Kelly Death: Police have refused to comment on reports that a helicopter mysteriously landed at the scene of weapons expert Dr. David Kelly’s death shortly after his body was discovered,” May 25, 2011, The Telegraph.
With Dr. Kelly, we must ask the same question we asked regarding Vince Foster: The scientist clearly possessed a highly gifted intellect and a methodical mind, and with certainty, there were much more efficient methods of committing suicide than dashing off into the woods equipped only with a very dull gardening knife. Therefore, we must ask ourselves why a methodical scientist would select a most inefficient method of suicide. The identical effect could have been achieved much more efficiently; and surely, a scientist would have selected methodically the most efficient method.
It has been established that there was official foreknowledge of the impending death of Dr. Kelly: The Thames Police Department set up its Operation Mason thirty minutes prior to the time Dr. Kelly even left his home for his afternoon walk. We are told that Operation Mason was a “tactical support operation” on Kelly’s behalf. An intelligence source in the U.K. has explained that its security services obtained intelligence on an assassination attempt against Dr. Kelly and Operation Mason was to deal with that threat. Well, assuming that’s true, here’s a question for them: Why didn’t they just call him on his cell and tell him to sit tight until some uniforms got there and, in the meantim
e, don’t do anything dangerous, like taking a long walk in the woods by yourself?547
Member of Parliament Norman Baker took a year off from his duties as Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee for the express purpose of researching Dr. Kelly’s highly suspicious death, resulting in his well- researched and thoroughly documented book, The Strange Death of David Kelly. In that work, he dissects the wrongful ruling of “Suicide” in a manner much the same as seen here. He concluded that, at the time of Dr. Kelly’s death, everything in the Administrations of the U.S. and Great Britain were acutely geared toward “justification for a pre-emptive strike on Iraq” and that “the death of Dr. Kelly was central” to that issue and took place within that “highly charged atmosphere.”548
CONCLUSION
As one British newspaper summed it all up, Dr. Kelly’s highly suspicious death occurred “shortly after he was exposed as the source of a BBC news report questioning the Government’s claims that Saddam Hussein had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction which could be deployed within 45 minutes. Lord Hutton’s 2004 report, commissioned by Mr Blair, concluded that Dr. Kelly killed himself with a blunt gardening knife. It was dismissed by many experts as a whitewash for clearing the Government of any culpability, despite evidence that it had leaked Dr. Kelly’s name in an attempt to smear him.”549
There are some very disturbing similarities in the deaths of Dr. Kelly and Vince Foster:
•Both were operating right in the eye of a political hurricane;
•The political firestorm had recently reached critical mass;
•Both were men of notably high integrity, who may have refused to “play ball” when it was expected of them;